Talks Excerpt 385. Swamiji speaks about the Divine Mother and Her Maya.

From Mother Radha’s notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.

Be prepared to adapt at all times. Be perfect in all you do, adjust with each step. Be perfect in each situation. It is no good to do what you can do already.

A close devotee asks: What is the relationship between pain and the mind?

Swamiji: Why do you want to know? Isn’t it enough to know that I exist?

Nirvana is beyond bliss, it is pure Consciousness, it is ‘I am’.

Shakti is the Divine Mother. The body is an inert mass occupied by the whirlpool of thought and activated by Shakti, who plays all the parts and makes you think that the world is real – and then She [using her power of Maya] watches the play.

It is the thought that ‘I am separate from Him [God]’ that separates me from Him.

In spiritual life it is not enough to sacrifice the body, you must also sacrifice the mind and the soul to God.

The love of the guru is the greatest thing.

If you are sad this ashram makes you more sad. If you are happy this place makes you more happy because of the power of God’s name.

Have the courage to face renunciation.

In meditation you think you are not thinking, but you are still thinking. It is only thinking. Do you get that?

If I live [in the] here and now, this leads to spontaneous action; thus there are no problems. Let others do what they want. See it, but do not react to it. Do not be affected by it.

Others can do what they want. Stop criticism that way.

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These recordings or the excerpts from them, were made from the early 1970s onward, by Mother Radha, a close devotee of Swamiji’s and edited for uploading here by our gurubhai and her son, Brother Tim. Please be mindful that what Swamiji was saying may have been specific to an individual or a group of people with him, at the time.